HS Critical Thinking

Catalog description

This course is designed to improve the critical think- ing skills associated with various forms of reasoning. The process of reasoning emphasized in this course involves identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and con- structing arguments. Students will be able to identify formal and informal logical fallacies, both to avoid these in their own thinking and to criticize these in thinking presented to them. Throughout the course, we will focus on the principles of critical thinking as they apply to several different forms of reasoning including scientific, causal, statistical, legal, and/or moral reason- ing with particular emphasis on how these principles present in primary source texts.